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Liggett Group Again Moves
To Break Ranks With Industry

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Alix M. Freedman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Jan. 9, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

In a move expected to open up a new line of attack against tobacco companies, Liggett Group Inc. has proposed turning over highly sensitive information to state attorneys general suing the tobacco industry.

Liggett's offer to release documents including its own lawyers' handwritten notes about three decades of meetings with lawyers from other U.S. tobacco companies is the second time in less than a year that it has broken ranks with the $45 billion industry. Led by Bennett S. LeBow, the majority shareholder of Liggett's...